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ID: 622757

Title: Worthy of Legend

Author: Roseanna White

Narrator: Liz Pearce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:34:54

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

1906

After a summer of successful pirate-treasure hunting, Lady Emily Scofield and her friends must hide the unprecedented discoveries theyve made, thanks to the betrayal of her own family. Horrified by her brother, who will stop at nothing to prove himself to their greedy

father, Emily is forced to take a stand against her familyeven if it means being cut off entirely.

Bram Sinclair, Earl of Telford, is fascinated with tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Tablean interest hes kept mostly hidden for the last decade. But when a diary is unearthed on the islands that could lead to a secret artifact, Bram is the only one able to piece the legends together.

As Bram and Emily seek out the whereabouts of the hidden artifact, they must dodge her family and a team of archaeologists. In a race against time, it is up to them to decide what makes a hero worthy of legend. Is it fighting valiantly to claim the treasure or sacrificing everything in the name of selfless love?

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ID: 622356

Title: Jack Knight's Brave Flight

Author: Jill Esbaum

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:12:53

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Historical

Summary:

Biplanes have been flying the mail in short hops all over the countryduring daylight hours, when pilots can see where theyre going. But crashes are still too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the U.S. Air Mail Service.

Outraged officials and pilots concoct a daring plan to save the servicea nonstop, coast-to-coast raceto prove that keeping mail in the air is the fastest way to move it across America.

But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm threaten the race, Jack Knight steps up. All he has to do is fly all night long. Through a blizzard. Over land hes never covered. With a nearly empty fuel tank.

What could go wrong?

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ID: 615721

Title: Fooling with the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV

Author: Dirk Eitzen

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:51:01

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Using Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dissects the peculiar appeals and potential dangers of deception in reality TV and popular entertainment.

When Amish Mafia was released in 2012, viewers were fascinated by the stories of this secret group of Amish and Mennonite enforcers who used threats, extortion, and violence to keep members of the Amish community in lineand to line their own pockets. While some of the stories were based loosely

on actual events, the group itself was a complete fabrication. Its members were played by ex-Amish and ex-Mennonite young adults acting out scenarios concocted by the show's producers. What is most extraordinary about Amish Mafia is that, even though it was fictional, it was cleverly constructed to

appear real. Discovery Channel, which aired it, assiduously maintained that it was real; whole episodes were devoted to proving that it was real; and many viewers (including smart reality TV fans) were fooled into believing it was real.

In Fooling with the Amish, Dirk Eitzen examines the fakery in Amish Mafia and how actual viewers of the show responded to it to discover answers to two questions that have long puzzled media scholars:

What is it about the so-called reality of reality shows that appeals to and gratifies viewers? How and why are people taken in by falsehoods in the media? Eitzen's ultimate answer to these questions is that, in taking liberties with facts, Amish Mafia works very much like gossip. This helps to explain the

workings not just of this and other reality TV shows but also of other forms of media fakery, including fake news.

The book winds through numerous fascinating case studies of media fakery, from P. T. Barnum's famous 'humbugs' of the nineteenth century to recent TV news scandals. It examines the social and emotional appeals of other forms of entertaining fakery, including professional wrestling and

supermarket tabloids. It explains how and why conventions of contrivance evolved in reality TV as well as the ethics of media fakery. And, for readers interested in the Amish, it tells how the ex-Amish 'stars' of Amish Mafia got involved in the show and the impact that involvement had on their lives.

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ID: 622762

Title: Glorious Fiends

Author: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Narrator: Amy Scanlon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:19:35

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

When infamous hot mess vampire Roxanne resurrects her deceased best friends, she's confronted by a dream-dwelling Guardian of the Underworld, who demands that she replace them in his afterlife with three equally nefarious creaturesor he'll drag her there instead.

Reunited with Medusa and Mx. Hyde, Roxanne and her macabre girl gang must become monster hunters themselves and fight for the future of their friendship.Gory, sexy, silly, touchingGlorious Fiends asks who the real monsters are, and if

the bonds that we think are solely human are really ours alone. This Hammerinspired odyssey is a nostalgic trip through '80s horror tropeswith modern sensibilities.

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ID: 621282

Title: 1812: The Rivers of War

Author: Eric Flint

Narrator: Franklin Pierson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:29:42

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

In this alternate history of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era, a small change takes place in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend during the War of 1812.

What results is a cascade of new developments that becomes an avalanche. In our world, Ensign Sam Houston, just turned 21, led the charge on the creek barricade in that battle and almost died from a terrible wound that took him a year to

recover from. In this world, his wound is minor, so he is able to continue fighting the Britishand develop his close relationship with Andrew Jackson much sooner.

Along with a radical Scots-Irish immigrant in the U.S. Army, Patrick Driscollone of the Men of 98Houston organizes a defense of the U.S. Capitol that prevents the British from destroying it and makes him a national hero. He and Driscoll then play a

central role in the defense of New Orleans under Jacksons command. They change the course of that battle in ways that will, over time, transform the relationship between the United States, the Indian tribes of the south, and the slaves brought over from Africa.

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ID: 615722

Title: To Win a Prince

Author: Toni Shiloh

Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:22:24

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Can She Stop Herself from Falling before Shes Too Far Gone?

As a fashion aficionado and best friend of the queen of the African island country ?l?r? Ilé, Iris Blakely dreams of using her talent to start a sustainable clothing line to help citizens in impoverished areas and honor the countrys resources. But when she discovers that Ekon Diallothe man who betrayed her best friendwill be her business consultant, the battle between her desires and reality begins.

Ekon Diallo has lost everything: his princely title, his material possessions, his friends, and the respect of his fellow ?l?rans. To pay for his actions against ?l?r? Ilé, hes forced to assist the charismatic Iris Blakelybut he cant allow his heart to distract him from regaining his status.

Though they come from vastly different worlds, Iris and Ekon are both determined to reach their goals, and the only way to do that is to work togetherif they can just keep their hearts from getting in the way

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ID: 622766

Title: Becoming Billie Holiday

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Narrator: Channie Waites

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:38:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 7, 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter. She named her Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time.

Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her lifea voice. Eleanora could sing.

That remarkable voice led her to Harlem nightclubs, the Apollo Theater, and a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Billie Holiday sang from somewhere inside her that made it seem as if she had lived each lyric, and in

many ways she had. This unique talent is what made Billie Holiday more than a singer. She was an artist.

Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems that form the singer's fictional memoir, award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles Eleanora Fagan's metamorphosis into Billie Holiday. We hear the intimate voice of the artist

as she examines her young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.

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ID: 602139

Title: Then They Came for Mine: Healing from the Trauma of Racial Violence

Author: Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

Narrator: Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Black Americans' resilience during centuries of racially-motivated violence is beyond remarkable. But continuing to endure this harm allows for generations of trauma to fester and grow. Healing has to be the priority going forward.

For decades, Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts clung to her upbringing in the church, believing that racial reconciliation would come through faith and discipline, being respectable, and doing what's right. But when her cousin became the victim of a white supremacist's hateful rampage, her body and soul said, 'no more.'

The trauma of America's racial history, wreaking havoc on not only Black and Brown folk but white people too, in its own way, will not be alleviated without the will to face it head-on. We must name the dehumanization that plagues us, practice truth-telling and self-care, and make space for our vulnerabilityto do the hard work of healing ourselves and our communities.

This book is written with that healing in mind. It unpacks how American systems and institutions enable the kind of violence we've seen connected to white supremacy and nationalism. It examines the way media has created a desensitization to violence against Black bodies. It outlines what it looks like for a person who claims to follow Jesus to be anti-racist. But more than anything, it offers a blueprint for healing and reconciliation that includes the necessity of white people untangling from an ancestral mandate of colonization and false notions of supremacy, and Black and Brown people reckoning with the impact of trauma and feeling free to grieve in whatever way grief shows up.

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ID: 593713

Title: Murder on the Vine

Author: Camilla Trinchieri

Narrator: Danny Deferrari

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:25:26

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Police Stories

Summary:

On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, Tuscany, Maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with former NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Hotel Bella Vistas young manager, Laura

Benati, is worried. Her eighty-year-old bartender, Cesare Costanzi, has been missing for three days.

The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Gravignas local café, runs out of gas on his way back from Florence. When Nico meets him to help, Nicos dog, OneWag, reacts to the smell coming from Jimmys trunk. Inside Nico finds a body wrapped in plastic: Cesare Costanzi, stabbed several times in the chest.

It is unclear why anyone would want Cesare dead, but that doesnt stop the Gravigna grapevine from spreading rumors at lightning speed. With numerous suspects on his list, Perillo has no other choice but to turn to Nico once again for help with the investigation.

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ID: 622758

Title: Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children

Author: Rita Eichenstein Ph.D.

Narrator: Rita Eichenstein Ph.D.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:01:43

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Parenting

Summary:

A pediatric neuropsychologist presents strategies to help parents of specialneeds children navigate the emotional challenges they face

As diagnosis rates continue to rise for autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and other developmental differences, parents face a maze of medical, psychological, and educational choicesand a great deal of emotional stress. With compassion,

clarity, and an emphasis on practical solutions, Dr. Rita Eichenstein walks readers through the five stages of acceptance and helps readers understand their own emotional experience, so that they can embrace their child with acceptance, compassion, and joy.

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